Product Description

A SIVA Award Finalist

Filmed live in Chicago, this performance showcases the trumpet-playing legend as the complete entertainer. The Founding Father of BeBop plays, sings and scats, dances and jokes with a joy and exuberance that light up the stage.

V.I.E.W. Video is proud to present classic Dizzy, performing memorable standards in an intimate club setting. This program is recorded in full 24-track stereo, capturing the overwhelming talent and spirit of one of history's greatest jazz musicians.

SELECTIONS:
Swing Low,Sweet Cadillac Fiesta Mojo
Embraceable You A Night in Tunisia
Nature BoyDizzy 's Scat
'Round Midnight

MUSICIANS:
Trumpets &Vocals Dizzy Gillespie
Sax,Flute,Clarinet S yyad Abdul Al-Kahbyyr
Piano Walter Davis,Jr.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127322 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-10-30
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 53 minutes

Amazon.com
This live date recorded in Chicago in the late '80s (but not released until 1993) captures pioneering bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie in a scintillating set of standards and original compositions backed by a quicksilver horn/rhythm section combo, featuring the underrated pianist Walter Davis Jr. and bassist John Lee. With his trademark puffy cheeks and upturned trumpet, Gillespie delivers speed-of-light bop licks on his Afro-Latin and calypso-tinged tunes "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac" and "Fiesta Mojo." His romantic tones ring on George Gershwin's "Embraceable You" and on a lovely trumpet/piano duo take on Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight." Gillespie's famous "A Night in Tunisia" is reinterpreted in a streamlined, exotic arrangement. Along with his technical genius, Gillespie is a master showman who works the audience with his charisma, jokes, and onstage banter. This DVD shows that even in his senior years, Dizzy Gillespie is still crazy like a fox. --Eugene Holley Jr.

Chuck Berg, JazzTimes- Oct. 1993
Dizzy cavorts and entertains...a serious kind of fun...a priceless souvenir of one of our bona fide legends

Steven I. Ramm, Discoveries- Sept. 1993
shows his spirited-personality better then any this reviewer has seen. …a joyful performance... lets his love of music shine...

Customer Reviews

A priceless souvenir of one of our bona fide legends!
JazzTimes video editor Chuck Berg called this extraordinary concert, recorded in Chicago's intimate Jazz Showcase, "a priceless souvenir of one of our bona fide legends." In one of his final performances, Dizzy plays, scats, dances and jokes his way through such gems as "Round Midnight" and "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac."

#1334 (53 min, Hi-Fi Stereo)

Ho-Hum
Yawn.
Just another performance of Dizzy in a club with nothing special to rave about. If you like Dizzy and are looking for another addition to your collection then, ok buy it. If not, you are not really missing anything.

Ho-Hum
Yawn.
Just another performance of Dizzy in a club with nothing special to rave about. If you like Dizzy and are looking for another addition to your collection then, ok buy it. If not, you are not really missing anything.